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Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments – Do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe?
(Elsevier, 2020-03-15)
People's subjective response to any thermal environment is commonly investigated by using rating scales describing the degree of thermal sensation, comfort, and acceptability. Subsequent analyses of results collected in ...
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Characterization of the airtightness level in school classrooms in Mediterranean climate
(2016)
An analysis of the air tightness level is performed on a representative sample of school classrooms in Southern Spain, which allows knowing the infiltration level of these classrooms, mainly through its envelope, which can ...
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Improving comfort conditions as an energy upgrade tool for housing stock: analysis of a house prototype
(Elsevier, 2022-02)
Given the role of the building sector as one of the current main causes of pollution in cities, the promotion of research on energy efficiency and sustainable strategies is key. At the Solar Decathlon international ...
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Thermal comfort prediction in a building category: Artificial neural network generation from calibrated models for a social housing stock in southern Europe
(Elsevier, 2019-03-05)
A significant part of the housing stock in southern Europe is obsolete and in need of extensive retrofitting to improve its energy performance and thermal comfort. However, before adequate retrofit measures can be proposed ...
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Are the dwellings of historic Mediterranean cities cold in winter? A field assessment on their indoor environment and energy performance
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)
Although European heritage buildings are excluded from energy efficiency targets, it would be beneficial to include the largest group, that of listed housing, in energy retrofit plans, in order to encourage its occupation ...
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Evaluation of environmental comfort in a social housing prototype with bioclimatic double-skin in a tropical climate
(Elsevier, 2022)
The aim of this paper is to broaden understanding of the social housing prototype that students and researchers at the University of Seville developed in response to tropical climate conditions to achieve the maximum level ...
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Thermal comfort prediction of the existing housing stock in southern Spain through calibrated and validated parameterized simulation models
(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
Due to 2030 and 2050 targets of the latest international standards, energetically retrofitting the existing building sector requires special attention. Prior to the proposal of retrofit strategies, it is necessary to analyse ...
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Thermal comfort and indoor air quality in low-income housing in Spain: the influence of airtightness and occupant behaviour.
(Elsevier, 2019-09-15)
Thermal comfort and Indoor air quality (IAQ) in residential buildings with different degrees of airtightness was studied in two climates in Spain. Behaviour was compared in the areas occupied by day and by night. The IAQ ...
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Double-skin facades for thermal comfort and energy efficiency in Mediterranean climate buildings: rehabilitating vulnerable neighbourhoods
(MDPI, 2024-01-24)
The ongoing global energy crisis in Europe has intensified energy poverty in vulnerable households, prompting a critical examination of passive retrofit strategies for improving the habitability of obsolete social housing ...
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Passive energy strategies in the retrofitting of the residential sector: a practical case study in dry hot climate
(Springer, 2015-05-11)
The new energy objectives of the EU for 2020 will not be possible unless the extensive residential stock is improved energetically. In this panorama it is very important to propose procedures for the analysis and energy ...